MobileRead Forums - View Single Post - sales of consumer ebooks down 17%, sales of physical books up 8%

jocampo · 05-12-2017, 12:14 PM

I was waiting for a new gen Kindle DXG that never arrived. I ended buying a Sony e-paper tablet where I finally can read and do annotations. That, combined with me Mac, gave me what I need in terms of technical books.

So I basically stopped buying ebooks (mobi or from Amazon) long time ago.

I barely buy non fiction but when I do, those are the only ebooks I still buy.

Some editors also started to offering the ebook free or super cheap if you get the paper book, I'm afraid that's also the reason for the decline, at least in terms of technical or engineering books.

05-12-2017, 12:14 PM	#77
jocampo Layback feline Posts: 3,034 Karma: 6980745 Join Date: Nov 2010 Location: USA Device: Oasis 2nd gen, Sony DPTS1, iPad Pro 10.5"	I was waiting for a new gen Kindle DXG that never arrived. I ended buying a Sony e-paper tablet where I finally can read and do annotations. That, combined with me Mac, gave me what I need in terms of technical books. So I basically stopped buying ebooks (mobi or from Amazon) long time ago. I barely buy non fiction but when I do, those are the only ebooks I still buy. Some editors also started to offering the ebook free or super cheap if you get the paper book, I'm afraid that's also the reason for the decline, at least in terms of technical or engineering books.